Amazon Prime Bargains - Chat Thread

Whereabouts are these failed delivery locations?

I'm in west Dublin and never have a problem.

In fact, sometimes they are a day earlier than expected. I got a package on Saturday, Sunday and just got an out for delivery notification today (Tuesday). All on time.

Only issue is that the driver calls the mobile before delivery and most of the time it's on silent so may not hear it.

But they ring the intercom anyway.

Ordered a few times in the last week or so. Two orders Thursday - one arrived Saturday, one on Monday. Order placed late Sunday arrived today. In general I'd say the bulk of my orders in the last six months have been on time if not a day early

i needed to buy a book from Amazon in the last few days.

I thought it was odd when i came to pay that the price went up for the usual extra VAT price from UK to Ireland. So checked on the invoice, and was being charged VAT on a zero rate VAT item for both UK and Ireland.

I phoned them up today and asked why was this happening? They gave me a £5 voucher for the inconvenience, but asked for this to be escalated up, but the guy just wanted me off the phone, so not sure they will do anything about it.

So i would check out any 0% rate VAT items you may have brought and call them for your refund.

The actual rules are which are correct on Royal mail site which is also align with the aviation rules:

Batteries including those sent with/without or connected to an electronic device

Batteries not connected to, not installed or not posted with the equipment / device it is intended to power >>

Batteries that are classified as dangerous goods by the latest edition of the Technical Instructions for Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air published by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) including wet spillable lead acid/ lead alkaline batteries (such as car batteries), lithium batteries when not sent with or contained in equipment, used alkaline metal, nickel metal hydride (NiMH), nickel cadmium (NiCd) and zinc-air batteries, and damaged batteries of any type. Please note this includes power banks.

• International  - Not allowed in the mail
• UK - Not allowed in the mail

I think An Post just shorted this to no batteries. As the only person who enforces this is the person at the desk if it's inside a device then say no battery. You are breaking An Post but not an international aviation rule.

Yesterday I got a refund of export fees from an item ordered on 9th April. It seems very late. Over 5 months later.

Two deliveries this weekend in Cork, both via Amazon Logistics. A first for me anyway.

Do you have to pay the postman/courier this fee when its delivered? Because the item stays the same price and I dont think Amazon would pay that fee?

if i dont see any import fees deposit on order above does it mean there are no custom charges i need to pay?

also notice it says Sold by Amazon EU Sarl

does it mean its coming from EU?

says 12.62 vat

https://www.amazon.co.uk/promotion/psp/A1T1YI3KOZVVAH

amazon 3 paperback books for £5/€5.92

Same as any other Alexa device, so it will. You might need to ask for stations in odd ways (eg if I ask to play newstalk it won't, if I ask for newstalk fm it will).

The speaker is not brilliant on it (not really intended to be used to listen to radio/music), passable for talk stations but forgot about it for music.